Addressing attachment for printing-machines.



I. D. HAVENS,

ADDRESSING ATTACHMENT FOR PRINTING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.Z2. I9I4.

Patented Oct. 22, 1918.

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ADDRESSING ATTACHMENT FOR PRINTING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.22. I9I4.

Patented Oct. 22, 1918.

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carry "them" around with the cylinder-until STATES PATENT orrfroEi-t JOSEPH'DfHAVEN-S, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

ennnnssrne ATTACHMENT non PRINTING-MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Get. 22', 1918.

Application filed Aug ust 22, 1914. Serial N 0, 858,044.

tachments .for duplicating machines, and has,

forits .objecttto produce simple and efficient means for automatically addressing form letters, simultaneously with the printing thereof Vith this general objectin view the invention' consists in, certainnovel and peculiar featuresv of. construction and organization hereinafter describednnd claimedyand in order tha tit may. betfully understood reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which' 'T ig'urel 1, is a topplanview of a duplicating or printing; machine, equipped with addressingattachments embodying my invention Fig.2, is a, vertical section taken on the line II 'II of Big. 1, I

' Fig- 3,, is. a fragmentary View, of one end ofthe machine andof the said attachments.

' Figs isanelevationof a part of theattachment asyiewed from the opposite end of, the same fron that shown'by F ig. 3.

Fig, 5,is; horizontalsecti on taken on the dotted linefV of Fig. 2.

Before proceeding witha detailed description of the inylenti'on, it is desired to state that thisaddressing' attachment is designed to print a different name and address upon each. duplicated or formv letter produced by the machine and that; the lattermay be of anysuitable, type, that. shown. being exemplified by United S tates Letters Patent No. 935,604, issued to myself and H. M. Page andRaymond M. Havens, Sept. 28, 1909.

Refer i'ing now to the drawings in detail, 1 indicates/the frame of a duplicating or printing machine, provided. with supporting legs -2, s1de extensions 3 for the frame, a feed table 1 mounted on said extensions and a slotted cylinder 5, bearing a v journaled relation to said frame. extensions 3, any suitable, means beingemployed to impart rotaon to. aid, cyl n r, a d S i a l gr pp echan sm b i g mployed, to take. up h sheets/of papenfrom, the feed table and the latter has nearly completed a revolution when the grippers release the paper and the latter either drops out of the machine or is removed therefrom in any other manner.

Underlying the cylinder and arranged parallel with and adjacent each side of and within the frame 1 is a pair of raceway bars 6, provided with channels? in their upper sides and containing rollers or balls, not

shown. Arranged within frame. 1 and over, bars 6 1s a rectangular frame 8, wlnchrests upon said rollers or balls and is adapted to reciprocate longitudinally through any suitable means, not shown, and said frame car ries at its opposite ends brackets 9 for the support of tral'isversely extending rollers 10 connected by a ribbon 11 as wide as the cylinder andunderlying the same.

Secured in any suitable manner to frame 8 under the ribbon and dependmg between, the raceway bars 6 1s a chase or bed 12 for,

the reception of the printing form 13' for printing the body of the letter, and secured in said chase in any suitable manner near the side where the head of the letter will occur, is a block 1% provided with a longitudinal recess 15 in its upper side, for a purpose which hereinafter appears.

The raceway bars 6 which carry the reciprocating frame, are provided with inclined slots 16 engaging fixed guide pins 17 projecting inwardly from frame 1 any suitable means being employed to adjust the raceway bars longitudinally to raise or lower themv for the purpose of throwing the printing impression on or off. The means for longitudinally adjusting the raceway bars and securing them elevated is not shown as it forms no part of this invention, and-t0 guard against any possibility of upward movement of the reciprocating frame on the raceway bars, the former is equipped with depending hooks 1 8, which underlie the raceway bars.

To facilitate the extraction of the ad; dress plates hereinafter identified, after they have performed their function, the

chase or bedis provided in the plane of the frameS and of the bottom of the recess 15 of block 1 1 with an arm 19. The chase or bed could bemade long enough to avoid the production of the gap filled by said arm, the latter being employed therefore simply for purposes of economy and light11ess."There is also a space or a gap left between thefop posite end of the chase or bed andthe reciprocating frame which is bridged by a part hereinafter referred to.

Any suitable means may be employed to effect a feeding movement of the ribbon so that it shall not consequently print twice at the same spot, as in the type of machine shown, the cylinder presses the paper down upon the ribbon so that the impression of the form underlying the ribbon shall be reproduced or printed upon the paper during the revolution of the cylinder, and it will also be understood that the reciprocating frame travels so that the ribbon shall have rolling contact with the paper and the underlying form for the production of clean cut impressions. In the machine shown, the operation of the cylinder and frame is such that the slot or opening 5 of the former faces downward during the right hand or backward travel of the reciprocating frame to the position for the reception of the address plate for use in connection with the next sheet of paper to be run through the machine.

is a bracket fitted upon one end of the frame 1 and provided with slots 21 receiving clamping screws 22 mounted in the frame, the screws being preferably thumb screws so that the bracket can be clamped firmly in position by hand. At its lower end the bracket is provided with an out wardly projecting flange 23, and projecting from opposite sides of the same are parallel longitudinally extending channeled arms 24: and 25. lhe bracket is also provided with an upwardly projecting arm 26, through which screws 27 extend into a vertical address-plate magazine 28 for the support of the same, the said magazine being a vertical tube of oblong rectangular form in cross section, the side walls terminating at their lower ends in inwardly projecting flanges 29 spaced a slight distance below the end walls, and forming support for a stack of address plates 30, within the magazine. The outer side of the magazine is bent to form an extension 31 of the said guide, and cooperating with the said support and guide mentioned is a plate 32 which partly underlies the magazine and extends therefrom in wardly and terminates at the outer end of the recess 15 in the upper side of the block 14. The plate 32 being flanged inwardly at 33 at its side margins, from its inner end to the magazine, to form guides which constitute inward extensions of the magazine guides, that portion of the plate 32 which underlies the magazine being in the form of a tongue 3 which fits between the flanges 29 and is secured at 35 to the underlying flange 36 projecting from the said bracket and shown most clearly in Fig. 4c.

Arranged to reciprocate endwise in the guide at the lower end of the magazine and in the guide plate 32, and to form a supea t eater;

port at times for the stack of address plates in the magazine is a fiat plunger 37 secured at its outer end upon the upper end of a standard 38 secured upon a reciprocatory rack bar 89 mounted slidingly in the longitudinally extending channeled guide 25, the said rack bar meshing with a cog pinion a0 journaled on and underlying flange 23, and also meshing with a companion rack bar ll fitting in the channeled arm 24:. At the opposite end of the frame 1 from and in longitudinal alinement with the magazine is a resilient extractor 42 terminating at its free end in a down-turned hook 43 adapted for automatic engagement with an opening 44: in the adj acent end of the address plate 30 resting in the recess of block 14, it being noticed in this connection that all of the address plates stacked in the magazine have their openings is vertically alined, the said extractor being adapted as hereinafter explained to effect the withdrawal of the address plates one by one from the recess of the block 14, and drop said plates one upon another into'a receptacle a5 placed to receive them. 2

Assuming that the parts are in the position shown and that the cylinder is being turned in the direction indicated by the arrow, Fig. 2, it will be seen that paper fed upon table a into the machine, will travel upon the cylinder and that the reciprocating frame will be moving to the left in said figure, so that the form will be printed upon the sheet and the address from the plate in the recess 15 will be printed upon the sheet at the same time. such that the left hand end of frame 8 will almost reach the correspondingend of frame 1, the left hand roller 10 passing over the extractor a2 and the frame together With the form block 14: passing under the extractor, the latter therefore slightly raising or bulging the ribbon upward. It willalso be apparent that as the address plate upon said block comes in contact with the downturned hook end 43, of'the extractor, the

said hook end will be sprung upward and snap into the opening, a l of said address plate as the left hand travel of the reciprocating frame terminates. It will be understood that because the pin 46 depends from the reciprocating frame through the rack bar il, the latter is moved to the lefthand in the action described, and through the pinion effects right hand movement of the rack bar 39, which, movement of course carries with it the plunger 87 until the latter is withdrawn from below the stack of plates in the magazine, its movement encling while its free end is lying within the extensions 31 of the guideway of the magazine. As the plunger is thus withdrawn the stack of address plates in the magazine descends a distance equal to the thickness of The travel will be the plunger and rests upon the guideway32 and the flanges 29 of the magazine.

As the parts are thus positioned, the return or right hand travel of the reciprocating frame begins and hence imparts simultaneously reverse movement through the gearing described to the plunger 37, which also engages the adjacent end of the undermost address plate of the stack within the magazine and begins to push the same toward the approaching block 14: by way of the gnideway 32. About the time the said plate is pushed by the plunger a distance about equal to the length of the plate, the extractor 42, has partly withdrawn the address plate out of the recess 15 and upon the space bridging arm 19, this withdrawing action of the last-named address plate and the feeding action of the second plate by means of the plunger continuing until the parts have attained their original posi-s tions at which time the extractor has pulled the engaged plate off the adjacent end of the frame 8, so that it may drop down into the receptacle 45. At the same time the plunger advances the other address plate until the same clears the guideway 32 and drops into the recess 15. As the used plate isthus extracted and the new plate in serted in theblock 14 the reciprocating frame again starts toward the left-hand so that the new plate shall throughthe ribbon be impressed upon the next sheet of paper, all subsequent operations being repetitions of those described.

From theabove description it will be apparent that I have produced an addressing attachment for duplicating machines embodying the features of advantage enumerated as desirable and I Wish it to be understood that I reserve the right to make all changes fallingwithin the scope of the appended claims;

I claim:

l-. The combination in a letter duplicating machine, of a reciprocating form-carrying frame, a rotating sheet-paper-carrying cylinder, a block carried by the reciprocating frame and provided with a recess in its upper side, a fixed guideway adapted for discharge into the recess when theblock is at one end of its travel, a series of address plates for delivery to-said guideway, a plunger reciprocating in the guideway synchronously with the reciprocating frame and adapted to push an address plate through the guideway into the recess of said block, inking means whereby the form is imprinted on the paper during the reciprocating move ment of the frame, and means for extracting each address plate from the block after the printing action is completed.

2. The combination in a letter duplicating machine, of a reciprocating form-carrying frame, a rotating sheet-paper-carrying cylinder, a block carried by the reciprocating frame and provided with a recess in its upper side, a fixed guideway adapted for discharge into the recess when the block is at one end of its travel, a series of address plates for delivery to said guideway, a plunger reciprocating in the guideway synchronously with but in the reverse direction to the reciprocating frame and adapted at the end of each reciprocating movement of the reciprocating frame to push an address plate through the guideway into the recess of said block, inking means whereby the form is imprinted on the paper during the reciprocat ing movement of the frame, and means for extracting each address plate from the block during thesecond half of a complete rcciprocating travel of the reciprocating frame.

3. The combination in a letter duplicating machine, of a reciprocating fornrcarrying frame, a rotating sheet-paper-earrying cylinder, a block carried by the reciprocating frame and provided with a recess in its upper side, a fixed guideway adapted for discharge into the recess when the block is at one end of its travel, arseries of address plates for delivery to said guideway, a reciprocating plunger operatingsynchronously with but in the reverse direction to the reciprocating frame and adapted as the latter makes the first half of each of its reciproeating movements to permit one of the address plates to enter the guideway and during the second half of such movement of the reciprocating frame to slide such address plate forward through said guideway vand into the recess of said block, and inking means whereby the form is imprintedon the paper during the reciprocating movement of the frame.

a. The combination in a letter duplicating machine, of a reciprocating form-carrying frame, a rotating sheet-paper carrying cylinder, a block carried by the reciprocating frame and provided with a recess in the upper side, a fixed guideway adapted for discharge into the recess when the block is at one end of its travel, a series of address plates for delivery to said guideway, a reciprocating plunger operating synchronously with but in the reverse direction to the reciprocating frame and adapted as the latter makes the first half of each of its reciproeating movements to permit one of the address plates to enter the guideway and during the second half of such movement of the reciprocating frame to slide such address plate forward through said guideway and into the recess of said block, inking means whereby the form is imprinted on the paper during the reciprocating movement of the frame, and means for extracting the address plate from the recess of said block during the return or second half of the movement of said reciprocating frame.

5. The combination in a letter duplicating machine, of a reciprocating form-carrying frame, a rotating sheet-paper-carrying cylinder above said frame, a separate address plate constituting part of the form carried by said frame, a printing ribbon carried by said frame and interposed between the entire form and said cylinder for engagement with the paper to print the form matter thereon during the first half of the reciprocating movement of said frame, and an extractor to enter the space between the ribbon and said frame and plate and engage the latter as the first half of the said reciprocating movement is completed and efiect the withdrawal of said plate during the second half or return movement of said frame.

6. The combination in aletter duplicating machine of a reciprocating form-carrying frame, a rotating sheet-paper-carrying cylinder above said frame, a block reciproeating with said frame and provided with a recess in its upper side, a magazine open at its lower end and provided with a guideway at such end in longitudinal alinement with said block, a guideway forming a con tinuation of the guideway of the magazine and extending therefrom toward the cylinder and upon the said block when the reciprocating frame occupies its starting position, a slidable plunger fitting in the guideways and, when the said frame occupies its starting point, underlying the magazine, a stack of address plates in the magazine and sup ported by the said plunger when the latter 'is underlying the magazine, and means for effecting the withdrawal of said plunger from over said block and from under said magazine during the first half of the reciprocating movement of said frame, to permit the said stack of address plates to descend until the undermost one is supported by the guideway in advance of the withdrawn plunger, and for efiecting the readvance of said plunger during the second half or return movement of said reciprocating frame to cause said plunger to push the undermost naeaaes" address plate through the guideway toward the cylinder, until it drops into the recess of said block.

7. lhe combination in a letter duplicating machine of a reciprocating form-carrying frame, a rotating sheet-paper-carrying cylinder above said frame, a block reciprocating with said frame and provided with a recess in its upper side, a magazine open at its lower end and provided with a guideway at such end in longitudinal alinement with said block, a guideway forming a continuation of the guideway of the magazine and extending therefrom toward the cylinder and upon the said block when the reciprocating frame occupies its starting position, a slidable plunger fitting in the guideways and, when the said frame occupies its starting point, underlying the magazine, a stack of address plates in the magazine and supported by the said plunger when the latter is underlying the magazine, and means for efiecting the withdrawal of said plunger from over said block and from under said magazine during the first half of the reciprocating movement of said frame, to permit the said stack of address plates to descend until the undermost one is supported by the guideway in advance of the withdrawn plunger, and for effecting the readvance of said plunger during the second half or return movement of said reciprocating frame to cause said plunger to push the undermost address plate through the guideway toward the c linder, until it drops into the recess of said block, means whereby the form, including the address plate occupying the recess of the block, shall effect the printing of the paper in the first half of the reciprocating movement of the frame following the deposit of said address plate in said recess, and means for extracting the said address plate as the return or second half of said reciprocating action of the frame occurs.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH D. HAVENS. Witnesses:

H. C. Rooenns, G. Y. 'llnonrn.

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